Professional past-keeper here in a way. Interestingly, working with old sometimes unwanted “stuff,” I truly value the real important stuff and LOVE to toss what doesn’t need to be kept (which is a documented decision).

This so much! I remember when a friend went on an extended study abroad with no access to TV. For a season and a half I carefully recorded The West Wing for her and presented a box of tapes upon her return. It was so stressful to have the responsibility!

Still have the homemade extra long tape that contains The Wizard of Oz, Rainbow Brite movie, and Popples. Plus another one with Winnie the Pooh, which I apparently watched 24/7 as a toddler. My parents happily and illegally taped this kind of stuff all the time, I believe our first pre-recorded proper movie VHS was a…

I still remember buying this set for $9.99 from upstart Reel.com.

Still have dozens of home-recorded tapes of anything related to Star Wars circa 1999. Had fun converting some to DVD in a DIY project a few years ago, but never finished.

Eh, it’s probably good to have waited. Digital formats are still not entirely settled and there’s no real stable or long-term storage medium. I have professional knowledge that the best method is a combo of “lots of copies” and “copy to new storage every 5 years.”

My great-grandmother died of it in the 1950s. When I found out it was a vitamin deficiency it seemed so strange in these modern times, relating it to rickets or something like that. I know much better now how complex bodies are and the many ways things don’t work right.

People across the street from me have 2 car garages. Yet they are the ones all parking on the street, clogging it up, and I’m guessing because they use the garage for storage.

So true. I thought I was generally informed from local news coverage and family history. But watching the documentary Prophet’s Prey was absolutely horrifying (for one thing didn’t know about the school where Warren Jeffs molested the students). I share ancestry with one of the FLDS families back about 4-5…

I also think government jobs are more equal simply because the salary is transparent and there’s lots of rules on advancement. Of course there’s ways to skirt any rule if one is determined.

I went on Saturday afternoon and it was barely half-sold (it was a huge auditorium). No one can tell me when to see a movie, sheesh.

Single, no kids and I went on Saturday afternoon all by myself. It’s turned into a bit of a tradition for Pixar, though usually I try for a bargain showing after work on the Friday. I don’t mind the showings being full of kids, I remember once a kid laughing with delight at every silly joke.

Speaking from the other side, the close friends I’ve had since school sort of left me to become parents. I’ve been there whenever invited (birth, first birthdays) but don’t feel as important as immediate or extended family. I was a busy teen babysitter and love babies and kids. Now I don’t think I’m seen as a person…

Yes. As a story I heard goes, no one on their deathbed wishes they had worked more.

Family was visiting the area in 2008 and it was fun to read about all the excitement from the recent filming of National Treasure 2 in local papers and guides. Actually, the location where the characters are “behind” the monument is several miles north, so no there isn’t a lake somehow suspended high up behind those…

One reason why I stopped after a perfectly fine and fulfilling undergraduate in history. Even back then I knew I’d be frustrated by such aspects of academia. I still get to delve into history, but by working in a library/archives setting instead.

I just finished antibiotics post-surgery and for the first time experienced bad gut side effects (plus a yeast infection). So I bought probiotics and started what turned out to be 3 days before finishing (side effects happened on day 7 for whatever reason). I skipped at least one day due to digestive rumbling…

Yes, me too. I’m approaching 15 years after college graduation and the papers I was so proud of then seem rather labored now. My work requires more technical writing, and I’ve actively worked to be a clear communicator instead of filling space with everything I know.

So true. If I didn’t have a church community, I’d have no social life at this point as old friends from school/neighborhood have been subsumed into their own nuclear families. Of course I rather assumed this would me too by now, so it’s double difficult being on the wrong side.

Working around archives/records it’s true how things can get lost (or “temporarily not found”). I’ve given up on a box now that was not returned to its assigned location. Though I’m pretty sure it’s still around somewhere, at best it’ll turn up in an inventory.